Jesús Mendoza Aguirre

Jesús Mendoza

250px Mendoza (center) training with Xerez in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Jesús Mendoza Aguirre
Date of birth	(1977-02-23) 23 February 1977
Place of birth	Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Height
Position(s)	Left back
Team information
Current team	Trebujena (coach)
Youth career
	Jerez Industrial
	Flamenco
	Cádiz
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–1998	Cádiz B
1998–1999	Cádiz	0	(0)
1998–1999	→ Portuense (loan)
1999–2013	Xerez	441	(12)
2013–2014	Sanluqueño	15	(2)
Total		456	(14)
Managerial career
2014–2015	Xerez
2015–	Trebujena
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Mendoza and the second or maternal family name is Aguirre.

Jesús Mendoza Aguirre (born 23 February 1977) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a left back, and the current manager of Trebujena CF.

He spent the vast majority of his 18-year senior career with Xerez, competing in all three major levels of Spanish football and appearing in 459 official games. In 2014 he started working as a manager, with the same club.

Football career

Mendoza was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Province of Cádiz. After starting professionally with lowly Racing Club Portuense, he moved in 1999 to hometown's Xerez CD: in nine of the following ten seasons he never appeared in less than 35 games, being instrumental in the Andalusians' promotions to the second division (2001) and La Liga (2009).

In the 2009–10 campaign Mendoza could only play 12 league matches, as the team was immediately relegated from the top flight. He made his debut in the competition on 30 August 2009, in a 0–2 away loss against RCD Mallorca.

In late 2010, 33-year-old Mendoza renewed his link with his main club for a further season, whilst accepting to take a pay cut. On 3 July 2013, after dropping two categories at once, he left the Azulinos and joined Atlético Sanluqueño CF in the third level, retiring in January of the following year.

On 7 July 2014 Mendoza returned to former side Xerez, being appointed manager.

External links

• Jesús Mendoza profile at BDFutbol
• Jesús Mendoza at Soccerway